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A Gesture Life
Hardback cover
AuthorChang-Rae Lee
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherRiverhead Books
Publication date
September 6, 1999
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages356
ISBN978-1-57322-146-7
OCLC41488613
LC ClassPS3562.E3347 G4 1999
Preceded byNative Speaker 

A Gesture Life is a 1999 novel written by Chang-Rae Lee which takes the form of a narrative of an elderly medical-supply salesman named Doc Hata, who deals with everyday life in a small town in the United States called Bedley Run, and who remembers treating Korean comfort women for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He once owned a medical and surgical supply store and he has an adopted daughter named Sunny. All the problems which Doc Hata has to deal with stem from his experiences serving the Japanese Imperial Army in the World War II.

Chang-Rae Lee won the Asian American Literary Award for the novel.

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